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Today on Consuming Cinema we’re making the very same sauce Clemenza makes in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather (1972) with spaghetti and meatballs as well as a cocktail called The Godfather which Disaronno claims was a favorite of Don Vito Corleone himself, Marlon Brando.
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Ingredients List:
The Godfather:
1.75 oz Scotch
1.25 oz Disaronno (or any Amaretto)
Dash Orange Bitters (Optional)
Meatballs:
1/3 lb each Ground Pork, Beef & Veal
1/2 C Breadcrumbs
1/2 C Ricotta Cheese
1/3 C Parmesean
1 Beaten Egg
1 tsp Salt
1 tsp Pepper
1 tsp Calabrian Chili
Small Bunch Italian Parsley
Sauce:
2 Tbsp Olive Oil
4 Cloves Chopped Garlic
2 x 28* oz cans Tomatoes (*I said 24 in the video but as one fantastic commenter pointed out, those large cans are 28 oz*)
12 oz can Tomato Paste
1 C Red Wine
1/2 Can Water
Sugar/Salt to Taste
Show Notes:
00:00 – Start
00:12 – Movie & Pairing Summary
01:49 – How to Make Meatballs
03:18 – Cooking Italian Sausages
04:01 – Cooking Pasta
04:30 – How to Make Clemenza’s Sauce
05:41 – Tossing Pasta
05:55 – Plating
06:19 – How to Make The Godfather Cocktail
07:15 – Tasting & Review
08:04 – End Credits & Next Week Preview
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Show Notes:
00:00 – Start
00:12 – Movie & Pairing Summary
01:49 – How to Make Meatballs
03:18 – Cooking Italian Sausages
04:01 – Cooking Pasta
04:30 – How to Make Clemenza's Sauce
05:41 – Tossing Pasta
05:55 – Plating
06:19 – How to Make The Godfather Cocktail
07:15 – Tasting & Review
08:04 – End Credits & Next Week Preview
Only use Garofalo spaghetti you can get at Costco. That stuff you’re using is awful. Also, only use Sicilian olive oil, Genco, if you can find it
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I would suggest modifying this recipe. I would double, even triple the garlic being fried at the start (double the oil as well). Then fry your paste, add the crushed and diced tomatoes and an entire bottle of red wine. Bring it to a boil. Cover it. And lower the heat to the lowest it can go (I say that using a gas stove). Add your meatballs (they should have been broiled). And simmer for 3 to 5 hours. Stir every 30 minutes or so. You want your meatballs, which should be even parts of veal, pork and beef, garlic, salt, pepper, basil, oregano and parsley with bread crumbs soaked in milk, to finish in the pot.
I prefer spaghetti squash to pasta
If it’s pasta with sausage and meatballs then you use rigatoni.
I love pasta but this one doesnt raise my appetite at all 😅 maybe bcoz the sauce is too thick? It looks like sauce for pizza instead 😅
We start cooking the pasta… What ????
Gordos!!
I tried to watch this but the vocal fry is unbearable.
No Italian would eat that!
Where are the typical herbs? Why was the pasta overcooked (setting it aside and keeping it warm is a mortal sin) and why was cheap pasta used and not real spaghetti pressed through bronze dies (or Handmade)? Why was the tomato sauce poisoned with sugar?
The following ingredients are missing from the sauce:
– Oregano
– thyme
– basil
– rosemary
– Mayoran
– some grated lemon peel
– white pepper
– one small, medium hot chili pepper
– NO sugar under any circumstances!!! Good tomatoes are sweet enough!
NO ricotta, use real mozzarella instead!
The sauce can also be improved with courgettes, sautéed red onions and peppers. If you want it REALLY original, fry (slowly!!!) a few slices of overginen in a little olive oil. But salt them first and leave them to lose the water on a sieve or grid in the sun for at least 6 hours before adding them to good, medium-hot olive oil. The less water in the overgine, the crispier and less bitter it will be. Then place the overgine slices on the plate with the pasta, sauce and meat on top. Sprinkle the whole thing with Parmesano…. Simply delicious!
I dislike all the hand gesturing.
You Forget The Wine :v
Don’t stir the sauce with the meat, shake the pot instead. You wouldn’t want them to fall apart.
In Italy we usually don't eat pastas with meatballs. Meatballs are served for themselves with the tomato sauce. We can also cook the meat in a pan, not in the owen.
YOU JUST WANT TO HEAR YOURSELF TALK
Dude your Dutch oven looks atrocious. Pro tip: use baking soda and a little water to clean it. Work the baking soda into a paste then scrub. It will take all that stuff out that you burned to the bottom.
Vinny made a great sauce. Sometimes, he used too many onions, but it was still a good sauce.
Not Italian one little bit it’s American
wtf the secrete ingredient is parmesean ?? i thought it was love
you didnt need to cook the pasta so soon..you dont need to cook the pasta until the sauce is cooked through which for me when I make mine will take 2-3 hours or more
Fat Clemenza…
This is all wrong. First chop an onion, brown onion in olive oil, then add chopped garlic. 30 sec later pour in tomato sauce and paste. Add chopped basil. Cook for 4 to 6 hours. No damn sugar….you add sugar to cut acid of tomatos. Cook it for the proper time and it will be sweet naturally. Simmer the sauce with the meat in it for about another hour or 2. Sauce cooks all day, not this ticktok 15 minute bs.
Nah. Just Clemenza's recipe, simple is best. Too much of everything is blasphemous!
This channel did a much better job deglazing with wine before the tomato.
I wish you would make the pasta from 9/ 1/2 weeks…
At ritstiles – we have such a lack of respect in our society today that we have to deal with little shits like you. Not that it’s any of your business but my family calls it gravy visit said sauce. Bc who the fuck cares.
Real Italian here.
Don't put the wine in after the garlic. You need to fry the tomato paste a bit to bloom the flavor. "Don't let it stick" is the key. Then the sauce has to cook for hours, to incorporate all the elements. Also, 2 sausages and all those meatballs is not a serving.
The only thing to drink with good food is wine, or water.
What are italian sausages? Salsicia?
Whoa with the sugar….
wow greatness is in your hands! No enemies existing for your glory!
You really have to simmer that Sunday Gravy for a couple hours to build the right flavor, but not an offensive attempt
there should be no sugar added thats a no no in italy
Im drinking more wine,,i dont know,,,i like the taste,anyway im drinking more , its good for u pop
You forgot the wine in the sauce.
Great Concept buddy, Congrats!
I am Greek and grew up on spaghetti meatballs. Just watching this makes me hungry. Well done!
It isn’t sauce , it’s gravy . Anything with meat is gravy NOT sauce .
Gravy takes no more than an hour and a half to make . All of this nonsense of 4 hrs , 5 hrs , all day is ridiculous . Learn how to cook please
If you haven’t seen The Godfather, you need to be slapped with my Italian Sausage!!!🤣
De Cecco is the best for Boxed Pasta in my opinion.
Cut the crap; I got more important things for you to do
I stopped the video and watched all 3 films. Not gonna lie the first 2 wear a mastetpiece and makes me proud to be Italian. ❤❤❤🍝🍷
For anyone who has never seen Godfather, please do. Then watch the greatest movie/sequel
No basil or oregano?
the pasta should boiled when the sauce is almost done, old Italian rule: "sauce can wait for pasta, but pasta can not wait for the sauce"
Great. But it needs some basil, oregano and bay leaf. And let's not forgot the onions.
The wine is for deglazing this is not a recipe just movie props 😂 he just throws everything into a pot i think
The sauce is supposed to cook for 6 hours but you tried